BlackBerry KeyOne Review: Mixed Nostalgic Emotions By Kevin The Tech Ninja

This is the BlackBerry Chi one, it was announced back in February, and here it finally is in its retail glory. Blackberry to many people is how they started with a smartphone. One of my first phones was a blackberry curve, so with this phone, a blast from the past, or is it something practical but emotional connections aside? How does the business focus BlackBerry fit into a world of consuming media I'm, Kevin, the tech ninja, and we're going to find out today? The BlackBerry is all about business and there's no change here, a very simple minimal packaging, and once you get the phone out of the way there is a sim card removal tool, documentation and also once you get that out of the way we have the accessories no frills. Here you have a USB, brick USB adapter and the headphones now back to the device in the hands. It's built solid, no questions about that, and it's actually, a good-looker is made from aluminum and soft touch. Plastic coating, the back, which gives it a premium, but yet not slippery field.

The sides are rounded and towards the top. It's a bit squared off. Now, on the top, you do have a headphone jack and on the right side you have your SIM tray volume, rocker and under that is the convenience key more on that mystery key really soon going towards the bottom. You have the antenna line and at the bottom you have your dual facing speakers with a USB-C port wedge between them. The left side just has a solo power button.

Now what I like about the buttons is that they're, very click and they're not really mushy compared to other phones also, they have somewhat of a different finish than the size, which makes it easier to find the front has a full QWERTY keyboard, a classic blackberry keyboard, but it has a new trick up its sleeve, and it's touch sensitive. So you can use the keypad to go between your screens, scroll up and scroll down and also do a quick delete while typing the buttons feel great, and it pays a nice homage to the old BlackBerry's. It's definitely a welcome change, and it feels a bit nostalgic. Oh, and the space bar is a fingerprint scanner too, and it is mighty fast one that the keyboard has a lot of techs built into it and at the same time it feels classic, which is nice and people who've used. Blackberry 4 would actually welcome that the screen is 4.5 inches in is 1080p resolution in the pixel density of 433 PPI. It's a Gorilla, Glass 4 IPS display the colors are a bit muted and subdued, but it fits with the theme of blackberry.

It's not too poppy, but it gives you just a realistic image. All the way through under the hood is rocking Snapdragon, 625, 3, gigabytes of RAM, 32 gigabytes onboard with a micros slot, and it also comes with Android 7.1.1, and it has blackberry software suite on it, and it gives you a lot of your old friends like blackberry, messenger, blackberry, hub and also the convenience key. The convenience key is a magical key. You can program to do pretty much anything. It's like Alcatel boom key for familiar with that.

So you basically can program this key to launch any program or any task, and things like that. You just go into the settings and set it up that way, there's also keyboard shortcuts from the home screen. So if you press H, you can go to hang out. So if you want to hold s and go to Facebook, you can do it here, which gives you a lot of different shortcuts. I mean from your home screen.

You can do over 50 different shortcuts with a combination of press and hold, and that's pretty impressive and actually very intuitive, so kudos to blackberry on that one. Although the snapdragon 625 is not known to be for speed is actually known for its extended battery life, but it does run the BlackBerry surprisingly. Well, there are some shutters here and there running between apps or doing something graphically intense, but nothing that attracts you from enjoying your phone or getting things done. This BlackBerry has been the best battery I've used in a smartphone in a very, very long time. The 625 has a way of spinning battery lights, so well that I've used the phone for three days in a row.

My same usage and still has amazing battery life now I'm, just using the phone as I normally do I'm, not turning off sync or putting in our airplane mode for extended amount of time. It just works, and that's that's nice. You know for business. People having battery life is actually extremely important, and it's more so important versus having the fastest chip available. So blackberry made the correct decision on getting a battery optimized chip versus a performance optimized chip.

Overall, the key one can do anything that any other Android device can, albeit may be a bit slower than other devices. But overall, it's fine sure there are shutters here and there with your power user. If you're doing intensive things in your gaming, it bounces between apps but day to day usage as a business person would use it. These are the things you're not going to run into email, texting, web social media or anything like that is going to run flawlessly on this device and pretty much any device to having the convenience of a hard keyboard does make things a bit easier. If you need to do some precise typing and using it as a business device and not really like a toy, you definitely do see the benefits of having three days worth of battery life.

The hard keyboard and also just knowing that you have a solidly built device that can withstand some drops can withstand pretty much a lot of different things. Just because it's built so well and look guys. The phone is not the lightest phone in the world, and it's not pretending to be an iPhone. It's not pretending to be a galaxy, it's being a blackberry and people who want to buy this phone. They want a blackberry they're, not going off to the person who has an iPhone they're, not going after the person that has a Galaxy S8 because they love the galaxy sit hey're going for that person who wants a business focused phone and blackberry did definitely achieve that.

The camera sensor on the BlackBerry is the same as what you'll find on the pixel XL and the pixel XL is one of the best cameras you can find on any mobile device check out the test. Now I've seen some shots that people took with the blackberry and Wow. It looks perfect, but I'm not getting that same experience as other people don't get me wrong. The BlackBerry's camera is perfect, but when you say it's the same sensor as the pixel X, oh you got to come a little harder than that now, although a sensor may be the same, I think image processing is where it's at, because the pixel excel has amazing HDR that pulls in these lows and pulls in the highs and stitches them together and makes this one amazing image, and I'm not seeing the same thing on the blackberry. Now, there's a couple examples that you can see where the sky is definitely washed down.

These images on the pixel look, so this would bring in both things, but on the blackberry you do have the over washing. Now the pictures are extremely detailed and a lot of the times you have really amazing shot, but just sometimes you don't get the same image consistency as you do with the pixel excel, but this could be something that's patched as it could be. A software thing, since it has the same sensor regardless this is the BlackBerry's best camera ever and blackberries should be proud. The speakers on the key one or shall I say speaker on the key one. It's pretty good.

The left grille is just there for aesthetics, and the right is actually where the speaker's how's that it's a mono speaker and I think it sounds. Okay, there's nothing great, nothing that will blow your socks away, but it is comparable to what you'll find with flagships these days. It does get pretty loud, and it doesn't sound, overly tinny and there's okay based response. Now, you guys are probably going to ask me the question: personally: am I going to buy this phone? For me, my world has moved on from blackberry. The world is so much about consuming media and also using the camera to communicate.

Also, the on-screen keyboards are so good. Now for me personally, there isn't a point of having a hardware keyboard, but that's just how I feel I want to know how you guys feel. Let me know down below I'm Kevin, the tech ninja. You enjoyed the video. You know to do give it a thumbs up, also guys there's a written article about this device sample pictures benchmarks and all things like that that didn't make the review on my website check it out with the link down below, take care of and say it again sell the credits ever present in make your grill talk.

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